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On An Agile scaling journey ? Take our survey to find out how you are doing.

Forrester IT

This year I'm excited to have my team colleague Amanda joining me in the bi-annual Forrester Agile at Scale Adoption survey. So in addition to successful Agile team practices, alignment with business stakeholders upstream and downstream with testing and operations, we are looking into more Agile at scale issues like budgeting and DevOps.

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Agile vs. Waterfall: Which Should A CIO Choose?

The Accidental Successful CIO

Which software development methodology is best? As a CIO I suspect that you are well aware that there are a number of different ways that your IT teams can go about developing software (and doing a lot of other things). It all begins with the waterfall approach to developing software. Next comes design.

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SAFe certification: launch your Scaled Agile Framework career

CIO Business Intelligence

Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) certifications are becoming valuable in larger organizations looking for efficient project delivery, reduced time-to-market, and ways to provide better stakeholder value. Scaled Agile: Scaled Agile is a key provider of agile training, courses, and certification, including SAFe.

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On An Agile scaling journey? Take our survey to find out how you are doing.

Forrester IT

This year I'm excited to be teaming up with Diego Lo Giudice on the bi-annual Forrester Agile at Scale Adoption survey. So in addition to successful Agile team practices, alignment with business stakeholders upstream and downstream with testing and operations, we are looking into more Agile at scale issues like budgeting and DevOps.

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Software project management challenges — and how to handle them

CIO Business Intelligence

The need for efficient software development has taken on greater importance as enterprises introduce more and more digital services and add automation capabilities to enhance business processes. Managing software projects might not be at the top of CIOs’ priority lists , but it is something that IT leaders will have to master.

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Scrumfall: When Agile becomes Waterfall by another name

CIO Business Intelligence

The Church of Agile is being corrupted from within by institutional forces that have refused or been unable to adapt to the radical humanity embodied in its collaborative, self-organizing, cross-functional teams. Agile wasn’t supposed to be this way. The broken promise of Agile. A sham of true Scrum.

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What is a Scrum master? A key role for project success

CIO Business Intelligence

Scrum is a powerful framework for implementing agile processes in software development and other projects. The Scrum master is the leader of a Scrum team and is responsible for championing a project, providing guidance to the team and product owner, and ensuring all agile practices are followed by team members.

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